In this paper, we describe the design of a new family of block ciphers based on a Lai-Massey scheme, named FOX. The main features of this design, besides a very high security level...
Recently, Park and Lim (1998) proposed two key distribution systems for secure VSAT satellite communications. One provides indirect authentication, and another scheme enables that ...
In this paper, we present the cryptanalysis of a public key scheme based on a system of multivariate polynomial equations, the ”tractable rational map” cryptosystem. We show co...
Abstract. ISO 9796-1, published in 1991, was the first standard specifying a digital signature scheme with message recovery. In [4], Coron, Naccache and Stern described an attack o...
The notion of rational exchange introduced by Syverson in 1998 is a particularly interesting alternative when an efficient scheme for fair exchange is required but the existence o...